SAVE CHILDREN IN MALAWI, WHILST SAVING MONEY ON FAST FOOD.

For further information contact Daniel Lewis on support@drunkendiscounts.com or 07505 834358

25/12/2008
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SAVE CHILDREN IN MALAWI, WHILST SAVING MONEY ON FAST FOOD.
Looking to do your bit for charity this coming year? Well one young British entrepreneur has come up with an idea to help save lives of thousands of children in Malawi, whilst helping beat the credit crunch. By offering fast food discounts to students via text messages.

Unlike traditional ways of helping charities, this intriguing idea offers any of the 2.4 billion mobile phone users of the World a way to help change lives without spending a penny. In return for registering with the service (which is free), users will receive local fast food discounts to their mobile via text message.

The site is the brainchild of a young British entrepreneur Andrew Cargill. Fed up of seeing horrific images of famine and the fall of the British economy he decided to do something about it. By using his experience of running the UK's largest online student menu site, iGotMunchies.co.uk, he decided to fund and produce a new site interestingly titled DrunkenDiscounts.com.

Andrew Cargill commented, "When people register on the site their mobile number and postcode are inserted into our database. We can then send out fast food related discounts specific to their location, saving them money. Fifty percent of the profits raised by advertising revenues will be sent to the charity, Mary's Meals. Which helps educate and feed the children of Malawi."

DrunkenDiscounts is encouraging people to do their bit for charity this year by registering for free on their site by visiting www.DrunkenDiscounts.com.

For further information contact Andrew Cargill on 07505 834358, or support@DrunkenDiscounts.com.

- www.DrunkenDiscounts.com is a website which helps both lives of local and international people of the World, via fast food.

- The service is unique in that we don't charge anyone to use the service, yet generates income which helps change lives.

- DrunkenDiscounts is the only service in the World dedicated to fast food discounts via text message.

Top of Google!

Hey guys just wanted to share the fantastic news! iGotMunchies has reached the top of Google it seems. Please see attached photograph. This is great news and we are now starting to get a huge amount of traffic coming through. Something like a 60% increase this week. My applogies in not updating the blog much as late, but I have been working hard on numerous things. One of which is a Newport micro site which I will then duplicate across all our bigger towns. This gives you easier and quicker access to the information you need. This is to launch sometime this week, so keep your eyes out :)

New site launched! - i Love Yummies

Hey guys the new site is launched and ready for your browsing pleasure. There is still an incredible amount of work to be done on the site but what's there will get you started. The login and registration system is fully working for once and you can leave reviews whenever you please. All information inputted on the website will also be displayed on the Facebook application and vise-versa. I have made a couple of corrections to the menu.php page as well so now if someone enters a title in all lower case it will format it in correct english with the first letter been capitol and the rest lowercase. As time goes on I will work this through the rest of the site to make sure everything is how it should be.

Other then the website launch the facebook application has really took off. We have over 250 people using it now, which is incredible. I have been updating it today so to include news feeds etc. These are still underconstruction but are kind of working already and should help in spreading the word.

Also on the menu page I have included a section of code which people can copy and paste to include in blogs, myspace, bebo etc. This again should help in generate hits to the site.

Yummies Fastfood takeaway in Newport

Somthing Special This Way Comes!

It has been a while since I last posted a message on this blog. During the time I have spent away munchies has undergone massive redevelopment. Myself and Dan have learnt a lot from the first two months of running the site. Within the past minute or two our Facebook application has reached a 100 subscribed users. This is absolutely fantastic news. I am hoping that by the end of this month the fiqure will be up to atleast 500!

We are just about ready to launch a brand new version of the site! The new site contains an incredible amount more content and really helps the user find what they are looking for easier. Munchies now even has a bit of a brain behind it. Recommending places to eat based on what you have looked at before. And automatically remembers your location and previous food type.

Any way much to be getting on with. We are hoping to launch the new version live with our first ever radio show at 4pm tommorow on International Radio Noize! http://www.newportunion.com/noize/

Google Page Ranking on the UP!

Hey guys, I have been working hard on increasing our Google Page Ranking and it finally seems to be working. Although or rating of importance is still fairly low I am sure it will raise dramatically in the next couple of days thanks to some big sponsorship deals we have been working on. Aside from the Google Page Ranking I have also been working on rewriting our urls to make them easy to read and more search engine friendly. It seems to be a bit of a pain in the arse but I am getting there. You will see what I mean from the attached snapshot. We are also about ready to go live with all our online order system so keep your eyes peeled for news.

The Facebook Application,

Just incase you guys have not seen the Facebook application I thought i'd take a little pic and whack it on here for you all to see. It works in pretty much the same way the site does with a little fewer features. I am still learning all the api programming gubbins that goes with it but would eventually like it so you can press a button and it sends a message to all your friends telling them your hungry. Then they can reply and you can all live happily ever after eating together. Anyway here is the link to the application. Get it added to your account today!

http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=26500966404

Page pagination now working!

Hey guys its been a long evening but finally got the pagination thing working so now each results page is split down into a max of 15 listings. This will help greatly with the loading times of the page, as it only has to display a max of 15 results at a time. It's possible in the future that this fiqure of 15 could be changed dynamically depending on the users preference...but for now i am just glad to have it implemented. The only downside of this implementation is that we have lost the listing preview drop down thingy-ma-jig but i am sure i can spend a little time to get this back online. As ever there is a pic attached for your browsing pleasure.